About Us
Est. 2015
Unfunded List, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit whose charitable mission is to educate the public about philanthropy.
Twice a year we provide rigorous feedback to unfunded proposals. We also write articles about grant-making and the nonprofit sector and interview philanthropists for our podcast. We host Unfunded University events to provide in person education to our applicants and host an annual Evaluator Summit for our evaluation committee.
At Unfunded List we believe that great ideas deserve great feedback and the funding they need to succeed.
Staff
Dave Moss
Unfunded List Founder
Dave Moss is an actor, producer, fundraiser and grant-writer but mostly he is the founder of the Unfunded List. Over his career he had the pleasure to be involved with the launch of the Nexus Summit, the “It’s On Us” Campaign, The Slingshot Fund, and several successful activist and legislative campaigns. After a decade of experience on both sides of the fundraising spectrum (fundraiser and funder) he understands the unique frustrations on both sides and founded the Unfunded List to educate the next generation of social entrepreneurs about philanthropy. You can contact Dave at [email protected].
Margaret Chapman
Managing Director
Margaret Chapman has managed budgets from $50,000 to over $50 million annually including START International, Inc., the George Washington Cancer Institute, and various projects for the Pew Charitable Trusts. Most importantly, In 2017, she helped the Unfunded List successfully file for 501c3 status and serves as our director of finance and administration while providing crucial support to our evaluation committee. She is the Provost of Unfunded University and holds an MBA and MA both from George Washington University. You can contact Margaret at [email protected].
Support Team
MarQuis Fair
Administration
Izabela Chmielewska
Programs
Andy DelGiudice
Art Director
David Jaffe
Video
Board of Directors
- Jennifer Storm-Jenkins, US Department of State
- Peter Williamson, Kettering Family Foundation
- Ashley Lahoud, Northside Center for Child Development
- Jane Moss, Phd, Duke University
- MarQuis Fair, Kaiser Permanente
- Ian Madrigal, Truth & Rec
- Shreya Balhara, Scholars at Risk
- Dave Moss, Founder
- Margaret Chapman, Director
Our Committees
Knowledge & Process
- Margaret Chapman (Chair), Unfunded List
- Mahrinah Shije, Pueblo Development Commission
- Jennifer Storm-Jenkins, US Department of State
- Kevin Liu, Student
- Maria Yuan, Issue Voter
Governance & Advancement
- Jennifer Albone, World Bank
- Chris Trull, Chris Trull Fundraising
- Ashley Lahoud, Northside Center for Child Development
- Peter Williamson, Kettering Family Foundation
- Lynn O’Connell, Women’s Giving Circle
- George Tsiatis, The Resolution Project
- Sarah McIntosh, Mary's Center
History & Culture
- Dave Moss (Chair), Unfunded List
- Andy DelGiudice, Unfunded List
- Jane Moss, Duke University
- MarQuis Fair, Kaiser Permanente
- David Jaffe, Immortals
Founding Board of Directors
All affiliations are listed for identification purposes only
- Alexander Simon, Simon Family Fund
- Alexandra Dickinson, Awesome Foundation
- Anne Long, Greater Charitable Foundation
- George Ingalls, Tecovas Foundation
- Seanna (Bruno) Crosley, One Love Foundation
- Jane Moss, Phd, Duke University
- Christine LeViseur Mendonça, Humans on the Move
- Sarah Hillware, Girls Health Ed
In 2015, founder Dave Moss started the Unfunded List in order to harness the power of the honorable mention and to bring added attention, recognition and funding to ideas that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.
We founded the Unfunded List with a simple mission: to provide feedback and recognition to unfunded grant proposals. What started as an informal effort to support social entrepreneurs with feedback has evolved into a vision of unlocking the value of an abundant and underutilized resource – well-conceived but unfunded proposals. There is no shortage of great ideas and potential solutions out there, but new programs need better support and the funding community needs a better way to identify and move new solutions forward.
Every submission receives detailed feedback on their proposal from our talented Evaluation Committee. Feedback could include introductions to other potential funders, suggested improvements to the proposal, potential partnerships, etc. and will be tailored to each individual application. Proposals from small nonprofits that have been submitted yet gone unfunded might also be published to the Unfunded List.
How does our feedback process work?
Unfunded change makers submit their best and most recent fundraising materials.
We assign their materials to a hand selected team of evaluators from our Evaluation Committee.
We compile the team’s feedback into one comprehensive report for each submission.
We share the feedback reports with each participating organization and offer a follow up consultation with our staff about the feedback they received.